What did you watch last night?

[sendô]

Tremors - probably the best bad film ever made.

[S-H]

Tremors - probably the best bad film ever made.

Classic!!

[psychoscoredthelot]

The Siege of Jadotvile – The true story of the Irish UN troops ordered to hold some remote outpost in The Congo in 1961 during the upheavals there. Really good film I thought and sheds light on the way they were basically hung out to dry by the UN. Won’t spoil it for you but well worth checking out.

got this in my too watch list

[Hammer1972]

Detroit, cracking film with some great performances from young British actors.

[last.caress]

Terrifier (Leone, 2018)



In which a wordless psychopathic clown rips people to absolute ****ing pieces for a shade over eighty minutes. Loosely extrapolated from an earlier short movie by a guy - Damien Leone - who previously specialised in makeup effects and it shows, there being little else to the picture but extreme sustained gore for gore's sake. This grindhouse approach on the part of the filmmakers is deliberate; it's hardly as though they tried and failed to imbue the plot with any depth or particular focus. It's just a guy in a clown costume who picks a random girl to terrorise throughout a nondescript location, killing a heap of random people along the way in quite astonishingly nasty fashion. It's like a horror version of porn. Everybody in the sparsely populated picture is there only to either a) kill or b) be killed, and every single scene is simply a loose frame around which to hang a fuckload of viscera. If that sounds in any way appealing to you then, make no mistake, this is your new favourite movie of the year.

The shame of it for me is that whilst I don't care for gore flicks which only exist for the sake of the gore therein, they're definitely onto something here with the creation of Art the Clown. I couldn't give a runny shitbum for clowns one way or the other, they neither scare nor amuse me, but David Howard Thornton's performance as Art is fantastic, a good few leagues above the atrocious acting all around him through the rest of the movie. As an antagonist, he's the most creepy and potentially interesting I've seen in a horror in decades. He just needs a better movie than this within which to play. He doesn't necessarily need a backstory, but some motivation at least would help immensely. I mean I suppose there's a measure of shallow, gormless, gonzo fun to be had from the picture if you take it on its own shallow, gormless, gonzo terms but there's potential for more, I feel.

[Chicken Run Supreme]

Marcella.......No attempt at humour in this series - it would have been utterly out of place. Remorselessly bleak and dark from start to finish, talking of which I have reservations about the way it ended. Won't mention in case anyone's still playing catch up on it, but for all of it's not-quite-rightness I'm not sure what else they could have done about it

Agreed on the ending. I am not sure how much longer Marcella's 'condition' could be kept under wraps and maybe the way it ended was the best way of dealing with it? It does leave the door open for another series though

Endeavour finished a while ago now but deserves comment. Apart from one why-did-they-go-there episode it was of its usual high quality. The relationship between a young Morse and Thursday the best of three wonderful partnerships that span the original programme and its two spin offs.

Roger Allam and Shaun Evans work brilliantly as Thursday and Morse, so much so I was delighted that Thursday's brother Charlie (Phil Daniels) stitched him up financially and forced him to cancel his planned retirement. Looking forward to another series with these two.


The best telly over Easter was a western double bill on C5 - one classic Shenandoah followed by an even better known one in The Searchers. Wonderful films with great central performances from James Stewart and John Wayne. Shenandoah is one of those rare films where no matter how recently I've see it I will happily watch it again once I've stumbled into it.

Shenandoah is a cracking Civil War set western and I much prefer Jimmy Stewart's performance in this than Gary Cooper's in the very similar but more renowned Friendly Persuasion.
As for The Searchers, well, it is the greatest western ever made, simple as.


Last thing - Dads Army. The best British comedy ever imho. Croft and Perry were incredibly respectful writers, with an affinity for their cast and characters. James Beck had died after they'd finished location shooting for last Saturday's episode 'Things that go bump in the night' but before they did the shooting on set. Their simple understated, nod to his passing was touching.

Anything that can still make you laugh out loud nearly 50 years after it was first screened has to be good and Dad's Army fits that bill. Warm and gentle humour at its very best.

[iLoveLasagne]

True Horror on Channel 4. Nothing new or original here but I thought it was quite well made. The dramatic scenes were hit and miss I felt. Most of it was tense which is heightened by not knowing or being able to see what the horror is which gives rise to tension. Like with most horror spectacles, a lot is lost once you see the source of the terror. I would have liked the show to delve deeper into it and explain more about the history of the house in detail. But squeezing 6 years into an hour is very limiting I guess. I will be watching the next episode with curiosity though for sure.

[NH Hammer]

BInge watching Doc Martin on Netflix and thoroughly enjoying it.

[Cuenca 'ammer]

Binge watching Gommora 3......

looked at the clock and it was about 2 a.m.


:shock:

cracking show...gonna have to do a re-watch from 1.....

also going to have to take a re-run with Justified....

another great show............

great opening music too...choon.....


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Gangstagrass........blue grass and gangsta..give it a try.....

[westham,eggyandchips]

Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation

Powerful stuff about the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993. Learnt lots more about the case surrounding it and some of the "key players". :shock:

Still available on Iplayer.

[Dover KUMB fan]

Terrifier (Leone, 2018)



In which a wordless psychopathic clown rips people to absolute ****ing pieces for a shade over eighty minutes. Loosely extrapolated from an earlier short movie by a guy - Damien Leone - who previously specialised in makeup effects and it shows, there being little else to the picture but extreme sustained gore for gore's sake. This grindhouse approach on the part of the filmmakers is deliberate; it's hardly as though they tried and failed to imbue the plot with any depth or particular focus. It's just a guy in a clown costume who picks a random girl to terrorise throughout a nondescript location, killing a heap of random people along the way in quite astonishingly nasty fashion. It's like a horror version of porn. Everybody in the sparsely populated picture is there only to either a) kill or b) be killed, and every single scene is simply a loose frame around which to hang a fuckload of viscera. If that sounds in any way appealing to you then, make no mistake, this is your new favourite movie of the year.

The shame of it for me is that whilst I don't care for gore flicks which only exist for the sake of the gore therein, they're definitely onto something here with the creation of Art the Clown. I couldn't give a runny shitbum for clowns one way or the other, they neither scare nor amuse me, but David Howard Thornton's performance as Art is fantastic, a good few leagues above the atrocious acting all around him through the rest of the movie. As an antagonist, he's the most creepy and potentially interesting I've seen in a horror in decades. He just needs a better movie than this within which to play. He doesn't necessarily need a backstory, but some motivation at least would help immensely. I mean I suppose there's a measure of shallow, gormless, gonzo fun to be had from the picture if you take it on its own shallow, gormless, gonzo terms but there's potential for more, I feel.

Watched this on Sunday. Mrs DKF watches horror films until they come out of her ears to the point I am bored with them. However, this one was pretty good & it did hold my attention which is unusual for a horror film. Its open for more or a prequel for sure.

[DasNutNock]

UC Final. Went to the right team, I thought, but the questions seemed a little less challenging than in recent finals.

[hammerddh]

The Siege of Jadotvile – The true story of the Irish UN troops ordered to hold some remote outpost in The Congo in 1961 during the upheavals there. Really good film I thought and sheds light on the way they were basically hung out to dry by the UN. Won’t spoil it for you but well worth checking out.


Yes very good, watched it twice already, could happily watch it again. A modern day Zulu.

IS this on Netflix by chance ?

[Greatest Cockney Rip Off]

Binge watching Gommora 3......

I read that as "Gonorrhoea 3" :shock:

[Cuenca 'ammer]

:lol:

Now that's going to be in my mind every time I go to watch it.........

[Whitters]

The Siege of Jadotvile – ........

IS this on Netflix by chance ?

Yes, and it is an in-house Netflix production I think

[southbrishammer]

The Revenant

Compelling, savage, exhausting.

[OFT]

Been watching 'Britain's Most Historic Towns'(C4) over the past 4 weeks It reflects a period in history based on a single town/city. So far Chester(Roman), York(Viking), Winchester(Norman), Norwich(Tudor).
Presented by the excellent(ahem!) Professor Alice Roberts.

An interesting change from the usual Saturday night 'entertainment!'

[psychoscoredthelot]

My f-ing tourettes family on C4 last night

i love these tourettes programmes - thank lord they went to germany and not israel - when the kids where shouting out wheres hitler

[westham,eggyandchips]

Series 1 Ep 1of Peaky Blinders

Seemed alright for an opening episode.